While I probably can assume the answer, since Exam 9 is losing a lot of material in terms of syllabus change does that still mean we can never talk about those topics if they will not be on the new syllabus?
Unfortuantely, youâre asking a question youâll never get a real answer to. And deep inside, you seem to know the answer lol which makes the question pointless. 
Kind of glad to be almost done with the exam process. CAS really botched this hard ever since 2020
Based on what people have been saying, this exam is just really crazy in terms of twists. I guess itâll be a big battle. Why canât these exams just be smooth lol
Except Exam 7. Exam 7 last year felt like Exam 9 from 2017. Very long but if you covered all the materials, youâll pass.
Iâve been averaging mid 80âs for the 2011-2018 exams I took using only a little over 50% of the allocated time. Going to take 2019 tomorrow. I hope itâs enough to pass this darn thing.
While more papers are related on this exam vs others, CAS takes quite the liberty to mash them together for questions which is tough when you study each section in isolation. Thatâs the real twist with this exam. Things you could never imagine together become one
I"m writing Monday too and am also nervous. The most frustrating part about all of this is that if I run into questions I couldnât answer last time, some of them I wouldnât be able to answer this time. If this goes poorly there is always the CIAâs new P&C track I guessâŚ
Hopefully my company approves CIA track.
This is one of my peeves about the new system, too.
Hehe, I just started looking around for my favorite pens to write with, then I remembered: CBT.
Hey. Could be a great good luck charm 
Took the exam today. First, I am glad that I didnât run into any significant technical issues thatâs being reported all over here and Reddit. There was a gasping moment when I pressed ânext,â I got the loading sign for like 3 seconds (which I never encountered before).
Overall, I thought the exam was very comprehensive with the syllabus, and fair.
For the first time ever, I actually had decent amount of time left over at the end (a little more than 15 mins) to go over some problems.
There were some difficult questions (total points worth like 4-6) that I didnât know how to solve but this is always the case with the upper level exams.
I just hope I didnât make any dumb mistakes on the other onesâŚ
Wishing for all the best for those who successfully sat, and for those that went through the horrible technical issues.
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Same sentiment here. Was able to get an âanswerâ down for everything but definitely 4ish points where Iâm not sure if what I did made sense or because wording was ambiguous.
Itâs my last exam so spent all evening over-thinking my answers and trying to calculate how many points I lost and comparing it against total points and past pass marks, and Iâm too close to it to feel comfortable.
This is going to be a long wait.
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Iâve never felt better leaving an actuarial exam. It was fairly straightforward and there were no truly bizarre questions like weâve seen on past exams. They combined topics together that hadnât been combined before, but nothing that was all that bad if you knew the material. I had nearly an hour to review all my responses, the most Iâve had with prior Pearson VUE exams was maybe 15-20 minutes or no time at all.
For context, I just used TIA and Rising Fellows for studying and consistently scored in the mid 80âs on practicd exams. I thought this exam was one of the more reasonable exams in comparison to all the practice exams I did. With the signifcant syllabus changes coming next year, this was as close to a âgimmeâ exam as we could reasonably expect.
Same here, I had a decent amount of time left over at the end which has never happened to me since MAS1. I think the exam had a good length but was still difficult. It was a âfairâ test in that, it was difficult as expected.
I put something down.
I respectfully disagree with the âgimmeâ assessment. I thought it was still a challenging exam. Sounds like youâre in good shape though.
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Yeah gimme is like 2022 Exam 7 with like 56% pass rate.
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Cool 
Most accurate post hands-down. Couldnât have said it better myself.
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